In Cambodia, the price of rice (paddy) often falls below KHR 1,000 (USD .24), discouraging farmers from producing rice for […]
In Helambu Rural Municipality, Ward 6, Nayabasti Tole, Nepal, the Taruke Village Land Rights Forum unites a diverse community of 59 households comprising Magar, Dalit, Brahmin, and Chhetri families. Once landless, these residents now practice sustainable farming, growing staple crops like paddy and engaging in vegetable cultivation and livestock rearing. This shift highlights their commitment to diversified and sustainable agriculture.
Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines – Excitement is in the air as the First Asia-Pacific Young Farmers Camp and Agrilympics (YFCA) […]
June 3 , 2024 , Bonn, Germany – As the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) continues to make efforts to raise […]
Vietnam's ecologically sensitive wetlands, which produce much of the country's food staples, including rice, fish and fowl, are now beginning to suffer the effects of over-exploitation.
''Environmental protection and economic development sometimes contradict each other,'' Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) Pham Khoi Nguyen said, spelling out the government's dilemma.
But Nguyen indicated that the time had come for drastic measures to protect a vast region of shimmering paddies and mudflats, stretching from the Red River valley in the north to the Mekong Delta in the south, which ''plays a crucial role in ensuring the national food supply but is also home to delicate ecosystems''.
Fostering the engagement of smallholder farmers and fishers in the policy processes and program development within the context of UNDFF: […]
The Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) will be conducting an in-person training to capacitate its country data […]
Industrial agriculture is devastating our land, water, and air, and is now threatening the sustainability of the biosphere. Its massive chemical and biological inputs cause widespread environmental havoc as well as human disease and death. Its monoculturing reduces the diversity of our plants and animals. Its habitat destruction endangers wildlife. Its factory farming practices cause untold animal suffering. Its centralized corporate ownership destroys farm communities around the world, leading to mass poverty and hunger. The industrial agriculture system is clearly unsustainable. It has truly become a fatal harvest.
